A Florida jury awarded a couple $21 million for a “wrongful birth.” The parents argued that if doctors had properly diagnosed their first child’s genetic disorder, a test would have indicated whether their second child was similarly afflicted and they would have terminated the pregnancy. They asked the jury to award them sufficient funds to allow them to at minimum care for the second child.
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A few days ago, I wrote that Cao Wenzhuang, a Chinese drug and food safety department head had been sentence to death, suspended for two years. Reuters reports that, today, the Chinese government executed him. Zheng Xiaoyu (as spelled by the Xinhua new agency) was executed for taking bribes and dereliction of duty, according to the Xinhua.
Reuters speculated that the ungenerally harsh sentence and its prompt enforcement reflect pressure on Beijing from domestic and international alarm about consumer product safety. Several products have recently faced recall in the United States over safety concerns.
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